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Winter Nights: Friday, Dec. 21

Cook/Serve
Crew Chief: Michele Holtz

Volunteers

  • Cathy Cutler
  • Marla/Ari Simon
  • Cheryl Brewster
  • Jill Luckhurst
  • Judy Fischer
  • Lynn Epstein
  • Linda Wild
  • Judy Fisher (serve only)
  • Jill Luckhurst (serve only)

Cookie Baking:

  • Rachel Berkowitz

Hard-Boiled Eggs:

  • Doreen Alper

Staple Shopping:

  • Arlene Downs
Evening Activities
  • Erica Zeidenberg
  • Debbie Phillips
Overnight
  • OJeff Rosenthal

Menu

Melt in Your Mouth Lemon Chicken, Buffalo-Style Green Beens, Simple and Light Garden Salad with Dressing, Dinner Rolls, Fresh Orange Cake,

Recipes

Melt in Your Mouth Lemon-Garlic Chicken

Serving Size: 6

Amount Measure Ingredient / Preparation Method
1 Whole Chicken (or pullet)
2   Fresh lemons
1 Tablespoon Garlic, chopped
5   Portobello mushroon caps, sliced
1   Onion, sliced
    Olive oil spray
    Garlic powder
    Paprika
    Kosher salt

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

Slice the onion and place w/ sliced Portobello's in the bottom of the roasting pan or Dutch oven. Place the chicken into the pan.

Cut one lemon into quarters. Stuff the chicken cavity w/ four lemon quarters. Stuff 1 T of garlic inside as well (2 if you really like garlic)

Tie up chicken or fasten a metal skewer to close the cavity.

Spray the chicken lightly w/ Pam. Cut the second lemon in 1/2 and squirt it all over the chicken. Sprinkle w/ garlic powder, paprika and Kosher salt.

Bake at 400 for 1 hour and 15 minutes - 1 hour and 30 minutes, depending on the size of the chicken/pullet. Do not open the oven to look at the chicken while it is cooking. After the time is up, turn oven off. Without opening oven door or peeking at your chicken, let the chicken stay in the warm oven, inside of the Dutch oven or roasting pan, for an least 2 hours more. It'll stay warm and turn into an incredibly juicy specimen.

NOTES : Who could imagine that such a simple dish could taste so divine"?

With some recipes, less is more. The delicious outcome of this recipe has as much to do with the cooking technique as the ingredients. Chicken meat that falls off the bone ... but doesn't take like bland, boiled chicken.

Bring to Temple in oven proof disposable container covered tightly in foil and marked with name of dish and date.


Buffalo Style Green Beans

Serving Size: 4

Amount Measure Ingredient / Preparation Method
4 Teaspoons Olive oil
1 Tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1 Tablespoon Orange juice
2 Teaspoons Tabasco sauce
2 Medium

Tomatoes

2 Medium Garlic cloves (minced)
3/4 Pound Green beans (trimmed and cooked until crisp-tender)
1 Tablespoon Basil (chopped)
1/8 Teaspoon

Black pepper (or to taste)

1/8 Teaspoon Table salt (or to taste)

Whisk together oil, Worcestershire sauce, orange or lemon juice, and tabasco sauce. Stir in vegetables (tomatoes, garlic & green beans), basil, salt and pepper; chill for 1 hour or overnight

NOTES : Bring to Temple in oven proof disposable container covered tightly in foil and marked with name of dish and date..


Simple & Light Garden Salad with Dressing

Serving Size: 6

Amount Measure Ingredient / Preparation Method
2 Heads Romaine or iceberg lettuce (torn into pieces)
8   Baby carrots
1   Cucumber
1   Red pepper (c+ut into pieces)
    Olive oil
1   Lemon
    Garlic salt
    Dried basil

Prepare romaine by separating strips (or iceberg), washing well and spinning in salad spinner. Prepare and place lettuce, carrots, cucumber and red pepper in salad bowl.

Splash some olive oil into the salad bowl. Squeeze half a lemon into the bowl. Shake some garlic salt (amount depends on your preference).

Toss salad with salad tongs. Do the process again with another splash of olive oil, squeezing the other half of the lemon, and then adding more salt.

Add dried basil at the end, if you like.

NOTES : Bring to Temple in disposable container covered tightly in foil and marked with name of dish and date.


Fresh Orange Cake

Serving Size: 16

Amount Measure Ingredient / Preparation Method
1 Package Yellow cake mix
1 Cup Fresh orange juice, from 5 medium oranges
1/2 Cup Vegetable oil
1/4 Cup Sugar
1 Teaspoon Vanilla extract
4 Large Eggs
1 Cup Powdered sugar, sifted
3 Tablespoons Fresh orange juice, from 1 medium orange
1 Tablespoon Fresh grated orange zest, from about 1 medium orange

Place a rack in the center of the oven and preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
Lightly mist a 12-C Bundt pan w/ vegetable oil spray, then dust w/ flour.
Shake out the excess flour. Set the pan aside.

Place the cake mix, orange juice, oil, sugar, vanilla, and eggs in a large mixing bowl. Blend w/ an electric mixer on low speed for 1 minute. Stop the machine and scrape down the sides of the bowl w/ a rubber spatula.
Increase the mixer speed to medium and beat for 2 minutes more, scraping the sides down again if needed. The batter should look thick and well-blended.
Pour the batter into the prepared pan and place it in the oven.

Bake the cake until it is golden brown and just starts to pull away from the sides of the pan, 45-47 minutes. Remove the pan from the oven and place it on a wire rack to cool for 20 minutes. Run a long sharp knife round the edge of the cake and invert it on a rack to cool completely for about 30 minutes.

Meanwhile, prepare the glaze. Combine the powdered sugar, orange juice and orange zest in a small bowl and stir with a wooden spoon until smooth.

Place the cake on a serving platter & pour the glaze over the top, letting it drizzle down the sides and into the center. Let the glaze set for a few minutes before slicing.

NOTES : Bring to Temple in disposable container covered tightly in foil and marked with name of dish and date.


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